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real hunger vs head hunger

we all have a food plan to follow and if your eating out side of it you will hinder your weight loss.But in saying that you will still get hungry it's like a head thing because you will have eaten enough. Does that clear it up for you?

It takes time to learn the difference. Have you had your surgery yet? It's very hard to tell in the heat of the moment, but head hunger has a lot to do with your emotional needs an desires. If you are/were obese you most likely were turning to food as your comfort / source. So you might get &quot;hungry&quot; when you are happy / sad / angry / scared / emotional. But really its that issue or situation that needs to be dealt with. Also, we are hit with SO many messages about food, its rediculous! every other commercial or ad says &quot;eat me, you need me, I will make your life better!&quot; Its hard not to get &quot;hungry&quot; when bombarded with all of that.

Physical hunger is something you physically sense. But after surgery, personally, it is much harder to tell because they cut out that nerve that senses hunger. After the first month I didn't feel physically hungry at all. But before surgery I learned my body's hunger signals, and I learned my emotional triggers. Nowadays, I have to remind myself to eat.

I have to ask myself and stop and feel. Because it is so easy to get confused with the head vs stomach. You truly have the empty feeling when your hungary. I have to agree with Kalena, sometimes you really dont know. Most of the time i have to make myself eat three small meals and guess when i am hungary.

I have always said that after surgery we all have the opportunity to redefine what hunger feels like and it has been true for me. I think the biggest mistake we can make is to associate the &quot;empty pouch feeling&quot; with that of being hungry. After surgery I have never really felt &quot;hungry&quot; If I feel like my blood sugar is low that is how I gauge &quot;hunger&quot; that and if I haven't eaten anything in a few hours. I eat small portions every 3-4 hours while I am awake and that has gone well for me.

I am only a little over 7 months out and still don't have an appetite. When I think that something in particular sounds good and I go and have it I usually find that it wasn't really all that satisfying anymore. It takes a long time to understand how to get satisfaction from eating something when in most cases it is such a small amount that you don't really eat enough of it to truly enjoy it. At least that's one of the things our mind plays on us in the beginning. In time you will learn to really taste your food and the enjoyment will come from that and you won't want to eat anything bland anymore... because it is just plain boring. I mean if you are going to eat.. you might as well enjoy it.

If you get the opportunity buy a copy of Judith Beck's book &quot;The Beck diet solution.. train your brain to think like a thin person&quot;

I began reading it and also got the audio book to listen to in the car before surgery and it helped me a LOT! It helps you to change the little voices in your head from &quot;sabotaging thoughts&quot; to &quot;helpful responses&quot; when you get that little voice in your head telling you that you want something you shouldn't or when you are giving yourself permission to eat something. It also teaches you how a &quot;thin&quot; person looks at food and eating.. which was a real eye opener for me. I think the best part of the book was learning the difference between head hunger and real hunger, and learning the differences between being hungry, having the desire to eat, having a craving and just being thirsty, which is what we are most of the time.. Good luck!

That is one of the problems I have been having too. I try not to think about it too much but when I am making a meal for my family the urge is still there to eat what you make. But what I do, and this might sound crazy is i taste it then spite it out. But the urge goes away. I don;t do that every time. I also found that I sometimes forget to eat when I am at work. I take my protein and Popsicles with me. I am 5 weeks out so I still don't eat much from my choices.

You know what? Tasting and spitting out is not weird - I think most of us have done that! I do it a couple times a week when I feel like I'm craving the flavor of something that I want a taste of, but don't want to actually eat. It works! :)

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